It does sound like the kind of brilliant-yet-obvious idea Clarke would have.
Tim Send a noteboard - 19/10/2009 05:31:23 PM
I have a collection of all of his short stories (yes, every single one), and apparently this was a short story which later became a novel (and an album by Mike Oldfield), so I'll see if I can find it when I get home.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
anyone seen ice used as shielding for ships in SF
- 19/10/2009 04:35:45 PM
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I think this is in THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH by Arthur C. Clarke
- 19/10/2009 05:20:24 PM
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It does sound like the kind of brilliant-yet-obvious idea Clarke would have.
- 19/10/2009 05:31:23 PM
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Found the story. There is an ice-shield, but it's for space dust, not lasers. *NM*
- 19/10/2009 11:47:33 PM
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Ice shielding against lasers?
- 19/10/2009 07:28:51 PM
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It wouldn't reflect, but it would significantly diffract... *NM*
- 19/10/2009 09:25:16 PM
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Perhaps...
- 20/10/2009 08:31:08 AM
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in Shepherd's novels they do burn thru the ice quickly, thus the ships spin *NM*
- 20/10/2009 05:18:53 PM
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Re: Ice shielding against lasers?
- 20/10/2009 03:39:25 AM
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